Joanne's review
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joanne's review
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joanne's review
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This was a book I enjoyed very much, although towards the end it begun to drag and I started wishing for it to end (reminded me of Sacajawea in that aspect). It has 672 pages and is written in 8 font which you have to read from very close up.
The book reminds me Jane Austen and Charles Dickens with the way they criticize victorian society (although the story is set a bit before the victorian era, as it begins in 1805). Only Thackaray is much more sarcastic and mean towards his characters, but he does it in a very.. Polite way!
There are so many weaknesses in human nature which are exposed in the novel, Thackaray likes to show every characters dark side together with the good, he seems to want to have the reader disillsioned. All this could have been mightily depressing if it wasn't for the wonderful humour which goes throughout the novel and illuminates it, making the read more easy, fun and bearable.
The author succeeds to influence you, as a reader, and to have you at one ti...more
The book reminds me Jane Austen and Charles Dickens with the way they criticize victorian society (although the story is set a bit before the victorian era, as it begins in 1805). Only Thackaray is much more sarcastic and mean towards his characters, but he does it in a very.. Polite way!
There are so many weaknesses in human nature which are exposed in the novel, Thackaray likes to show every characters dark side together with the good, he seems to want to have the reader disillsioned. All this could have been mightily depressing if it wasn't for the wonderful humour which goes throughout the novel and illuminates it, making the read more easy, fun and bearable.
The author succeeds to influence you, as a reader, and to have you at one ti...more
